Many such dissenters have, indeed, made great use of the Web. In Ukraine young
activists relied on new–media technologies to mobilize supporters during the
Orange Revolution. Colombian protesters used Facebook to organize massive
rallies against FARC, the leftist guerrillas. The shocking and powerful pictures
that surfaced from Burma during the 2007 anti–government protests—many of them
shot by local bloggers with cell phones—quickly traveled around the globe.
Democratic activists in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe used the Web to track vote
rigging in last year’s elections and used mobile phones to take photos of
election results that were temporarily displayed outside the voting booths
(later, a useful proof of the irregularities). Plenty of other examples—from
Iran, Egypt, Russia, Belarus, and, above all, China—attest to the growing
importance of technology in facilitating dissent.
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